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VP-VLA: Visual Prompting as an Interface for Vision-Language-Action Models

Zixuan Wang , Yuxin Chen , Yuqi Liu , Jinhui Ye , Pengguang Chen , Changsheng Lu , Shu Liu , Jiaya Jia
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keywords vision-language-actionvisual promptingdual-system frameworkrobot controlspatial groundingmanipulation tasks
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VP-VLA decouples high-level planning from low-level control in vision-language-action models by rendering spatial anchors as visual prompts directly in RGB camera images.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Standard vision-language-action models attempt to map images and instructions straight to robot motions in a single pass, which often blurs spatial understanding and hurts precision. VP-VLA splits the work into a System 2 Planner that breaks down instructions and marks target objects and locations, then a System 1 Controller that executes the motions. The planner places simple marks such as crosshairs and bounding boxes straight onto the original camera view so the controller sees everything in the same visual format. This interface is reinforced during training by an auxiliary grounding loss. Experiments show the resulting system outperforms end-to-end baselines on both simulated and physical robot tasks.

Core claim

By decomposing instructions in a planner and then overlaying the resulting spatial anchors as modality-consistent visual prompts such as crosshairs and bounding boxes inside the native RGB observation, the System 1 Controller can produce more precise low-level actions than single-forward-pass models, as confirmed by superior results against QwenOFT and GR00T-N1.6 in simulation and real-world tests.

What carries the argument

The visual prompting interface that converts planner outputs into crosshairs and bounding boxes rendered directly on the input RGB image for the controller to follow.

If this is right

  • The controller generates lower-level motions with higher spatial accuracy because it receives explicit location cues in the same image modality.
  • An auxiliary visual grounding objective during training strengthens the controller's ability to interpret and act on the rendered prompts.
  • The separation allows the planner to handle complex or out-of-distribution instructions while the controller focuses on execution.
  • Overall performance exceeds current end-to-end vision-language-action baselines in both simulated environments and physical robot deployments.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same prompt-rendering step could be tested as a lightweight way to add spatial guidance to other multimodal control architectures.
  • Different visual prompt styles, such as arrows or heatmaps, might be compared to measure which shapes transfer best to the controller.
  • The planner could be swapped for stronger language models without retraining the entire controller stack.

Load-bearing premise

That simple visual marks placed on the original camera image will give the controller reliable spatial information without creating new confusion or errors in motion generation.

What would settle it

A controlled test in which the controller receives the same inputs and training but with the visual prompts removed or replaced by random marks, then measures whether task success rate and spatial accuracy drop, stay the same, or improve.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.22003 by Changsheng Lu, Jiaya Jia, Jinhui Ye, Pengguang Chen, Shu Liu, Yuqi Liu, Yuxin Chen, Zixuan Wang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: VP-VLA leverages a dual-system architecture to bridge high-level reasoning and low-level control, maintaining competitive performance across a wide variety of tasks on in-distribution and out-of-distribution settings. Abstract. Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models typically map visual observations and linguistic instructions directly to robotic control sig￾nals. This “black-box” mapping forces a single forw… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Existing VLA models often fail to achieve precise localization (Red), whereas our VP-VLA leverages visual prompts to ensure accurate target placement (Green) across novel objects and unseen spatial configurations. ing competitive baselines including QwenOFT and GR00T-N1.6. Project page: https://visualprompt-vla.github.io/ Keywords: Vision-and-Language Models · Manipulation · Visual-Language￾Action Models 1… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Overall pipeline. VP-VLA leverages a dual-system architecture to bridge high￾level reasoning and low-level control. The System 2 planner first decomposes a language instruction into subtasks and generates visual prompts as interaction anchors and spa￾tial constraints. The System 1 controller then utilizes these grounded visual cues to generate precise sensorimotor trajectories for complex, multi-stage mani… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Overviews of our real-world task and robot setting. (a) We collect real-world robot demonstration for three task suites. (b) Robot setting for the experiments. We use external camera A for categorization task and pick colored egg task, while using external camera B for egg carton placement task. (c) We present examples of each task with the OOD setting illustration. line overfits to the training distributi… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Inference visualization on the SimplerEnv simulation environment [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Inference visualization on the RoboCasa Tabletop simulation environment [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Inference visualization on real-world tasks [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_7.png] view at source ↗
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Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models typically map visual observations and linguistic instructions directly to control signals. This "black-box" mapping forces a single forward pass to simultaneously handle instruction interpretation, spatial grounding, and low-level control, often leading to poor spatial precision and limited robustness in out-of-distribution scenarios. To address these limitations, we propose VP-VLA, a dual-system framework that decouples high-level reasoning and low-level execution via a structured visual prompting interface. Specifically, a "System 2 Planner" decomposes complex instructions into sub-tasks and identifies relevant target objects and goal locations. These spatial anchors are rendered directly within the native RGB observation space as modality-consistent visual prompts, such as crosshairs and bounding boxes. This avoids the modality mismatch introduced by dense masks, affordance maps, or additional control-specific representations. Guided by these prompts and enhanced by a novel auxiliary visual grounding objective during training, a "System 1 Controller" reliably generates precise low-level execution motions. Extensive experiments in simulation and real world demonstrate that VP-VLA surpasses state-of-the-art end-to-end baselines including QwenOFT and GR00T-N1.6. Project page: https://visualprompt-vla.github.io/

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes VP-VLA, a dual-system Vision-Language-Action framework that decouples high-level reasoning from low-level control. A System 2 Planner decomposes instructions into sub-tasks and identifies spatial anchors, which are rendered as visual prompts (crosshairs, bounding boxes) directly in the native RGB observation space. These prompts, together with a novel auxiliary visual grounding objective, guide a System 1 Controller to produce precise low-level actions. The central claim is that this visual-prompt interface avoids modality mismatch and yields superior performance over end-to-end baselines such as QwenOFT and GR00T-N1.6 in both simulation and real-world robot experiments.

Significance. If the empirical results hold, the work offers a practical, modality-consistent interface for improving spatial precision and out-of-distribution robustness in VLAs without requiring dense masks or separate control representations. The modular System-2/System-1 split with rendered visual anchors is a clean architectural idea that could be adopted more broadly in robotics and embodied AI.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract / Experiments] Abstract and Experiments section: the claim that VP-VLA 'surpasses state-of-the-art end-to-end baselines' is presented without any quantitative metrics, success rates, error bars, or statistical comparisons. This absence makes it impossible to assess the magnitude or reliability of the reported gains and is load-bearing for the central empirical claim.
  2. [Method] Method section (auxiliary objective): the novel auxiliary visual grounding objective is mentioned but never formulated (no loss equation, weighting schedule, or training details). Without this, it is unclear how the objective contributes to the System 1 Controller's claimed precision and whether the reported improvements depend on it.
  3. [Experiments] Experiments / Ablations: no ablation isolating the effect of rendering spatial anchors as visual prompts versus alternative interfaces (dense masks, affordance maps, or text-only conditioning) is described. This directly tests the weakest assumption that the RGB-native prompt format avoids modality mismatch and enables reliable low-level control.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figures] Figure captions for the visual-prompt examples should explicitly label the prompt types (crosshair vs. bounding box) and indicate whether they are generated by the planner or ground-truth.
  2. [Appendix / Experiments] The paper should include a short reproducibility statement (model sizes, training compute, exact simulation environments, and real-robot hardware) to support the simulation-to-real claims.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to strengthen the presentation of results, clarify the auxiliary objective, and add targeted ablations.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract / Experiments] Abstract and Experiments section: the claim that VP-VLA 'surpasses state-of-the-art end-to-end baselines' is presented without any quantitative metrics, success rates, error bars, or statistical comparisons. This absence makes it impossible to assess the magnitude or reliability of the reported gains and is load-bearing for the central empirical claim.

    Authors: We agree that explicit quantitative support is required. In the revised version we will expand both the abstract and Experiments section to report success rates (with standard deviations over multiple seeds), error bars, and statistical comparisons (e.g., paired t-tests) against QwenOFT and GR00T-N1.6 on all simulation and real-world tasks. These numbers are already computed and will be moved from the supplementary material into the main text. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method] Method section (auxiliary objective): the novel auxiliary visual grounding objective is mentioned but never formulated (no loss equation, weighting schedule, or training details). Without this, it is unclear how the objective contributes to the System 1 Controller's claimed precision and whether the reported improvements depend on it.

    Authors: We accept this criticism. The revised Method section will contain the full loss formulation L_aux = λ · CE(ŷ_prompt, y_prompt) with λ = 0.5, the precise weighting schedule across training epochs, and all optimizer and data-augmentation details used for the auxiliary head. This addition will make explicit how the objective improves spatial grounding inside the System 1 Controller. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments / Ablations: no ablation isolating the effect of rendering spatial anchors as visual prompts versus alternative interfaces (dense masks, affordance maps, or text-only conditioning) is described. This directly tests the weakest assumption that the RGB-native prompt format avoids modality mismatch and enables reliable low-level control.

    Authors: We will add the requested ablation study to the revised Experiments section. It will compare the native RGB visual-prompt interface against (i) text-only conditioning, (ii) dense mask overlays, and (iii) affordance-map conditioning, reporting success rates and failure modes on the same task suite. This will quantify the benefit of staying within the native RGB modality. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity detected

full rationale

The paper introduces VP-VLA as a modular dual-system architecture (System 2 Planner producing spatial anchors rendered as visual prompts, System 1 Controller generating motions) with an auxiliary training objective. All central claims rest on empirical comparisons against external baselines (QwenOFT, GR00T-N1.6) in simulation and real-world settings rather than any derivation, equation, or self-citation chain. No step reduces a prediction to a fitted input by construction, renames a known result, or imports uniqueness from prior author work; the design choices are presented as engineering decisions validated by experiments.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 2 invented entities

The central claim rests on the effectiveness of the new dual-system design and visual prompting without free parameters or external benchmarks specified in the abstract; the main support is the reported experimental outperformance.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Visual prompts rendered in native RGB space can be reliably interpreted by the controller to produce precise actions without introducing new errors
    Invoked in the description of how the System 1 Controller uses the prompts from the planner.
invented entities (2)
  • System 2 Planner no independent evidence
    purpose: Decomposes complex instructions into sub-tasks and identifies target objects and goal locations to generate visual prompts
    New component introduced as part of the dual-system framework.
  • System 1 Controller no independent evidence
    purpose: Generates precise low-level execution motions guided by the visual prompts and auxiliary grounding objective
    New component introduced as part of the dual-system framework.

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